Method of sewing two articles together



June 29 1926. u 1,590,686

J. HULTERMAND METHOD OF sswme TWO Anrrcws TOGETnER Filed Nov. 4, i91

Patented June 29, 1926.

JEN S HOLTERMAND, OF AARHUS, DENMARK.

METHOD OF SEWING TWO ARTICLES TOGETHER.

Application filed November 4, 1919, Serial No. 335,605, and in Denmark November 14, 1918.

This invention relates to a method of fastening an identifying tag to an article of apparel or the like for use in laundries, dyeing works, or the like.

The apparatus used to knot or fasten the identifying tag or mark to the article or cloth may be of any desired character, so that these parts are shown in the drawings merely diagrammatically.

The most essential parts of an embodiment of the invention are shown on the drawings partly diagrammatically.

Figures 1 to 6 show the six steps follow in forming the knot.

'The mark above referred to is held firmly on the cloth during the operations of the knotting apparatus. The knotting apparatus as shown comprises a metal bar 12 in which an ordinary sewing machine needle is 2 fitted, which in turn will pass through the cloth l4 and mark 10. Vihen the needle has reached its highest position and again returned a little the thread will form a noose which will be caught by a hook 15 on a catch 16 which will move downwards with the thread when the needle continues its downwards movement back through the cloth.

' \Vhen the needle has reached the position shown on Fig. 2, the knotter hook 17 will move out and then return with the double thread, but onfy so far that the knotter finger 18 can pass vertically from its position on Fig. 2 to that on Fig. 3, thus lifting the double "thread, as seen on the drawing, while at the same time hook 17 turns around its own axis entwining the thread once. It will then be pushed through the noose made by the entwining, as shown on Fig. 4, and afterwards return with the double thread stretched between finger 18 at one end of the catch, and needle at the other end. When on this returning movement, the point of the-hook has come beneath the knotter linger 18 it will turn round one-fourth so that the point of the hook turns against the knotter finger 18,-as shown in Fig. 5, and. continuing its returning movement, it will get out of the noose of the thread (Fig. 6 A knife 19 slides along a slot 20 in the hook and on being moved forward, it will cut the thread presented in the hook. At the same time the knotter finger 18 will make a movement perpendicular to the plane of the drawing, and will thus clear the threads. On the drawing, the slot 20 of the hook 17 is larger in width relatively to the diameter of the hook than the real dimensions in order to more clearly show the ,knife. When the hook continues its return a little longer, the knot will be securely tightened. The attachment of the mark to the cloth is now complete.

Having thus described my invention, what i I claim as new and desire to sepure by letters Patent of the United States is:

A method of sewing two members together, which includes the step of passing a double thread through the members to cause the thread to form a noose on one side of the members, pulling said noose downward around the two members to a point adjacent the original thread on the other side of said members, thus formingtwo thread portions, pulling said thread portions to one side and forming a loop therein while holding the two thread portions at another point, pulling the parts between the held portions and the looped portion through the loop to form a knot, and severing the thread portions forming the knot from the remaining thread. so

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

J ENS HOLTERMAN D. 

